Read this excerpt from "One Flu over the Cuckoo's Nest." The flu is caused by a family of influenza (flu) viruses. Some are more deadly than others. Over the past few years, a strain of bird flu viruses has infected a small number of people in Asia. Although the virus did not spread easily from person to person, it was deadly to those who became infected. In 1918, a similar but fast-spreading flu killed over three percent of the world’s people. About 500 million people were infected, with more than 1 in 10 dying of the disease. It was the world’s most severe epidemic.
How does the author emphasize the main idea in this text?
A. by providing evidence about the flu
B. by asking a study question about the flu
C. by requiring a conclusion to be drawn about the flu
D. by providing additional resources about the flu

Respond to the following prompts in your initial post: 1. explain if this essay is narrative or descriptive and provide reasoning to support your response. 2. describe what you believe the purpose of the essay is an support your answer with information from this week’s material. 3. now that you have identified the purpose of the essay l, explain why you believe the author did or did not achieve her intended purpose.

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Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky